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Was the Great Recession a Natural Calamity?

Was the Great Recession a Natural Calamity?

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Dec 02, 2017
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Tip of the hat to Adam Tooze for flagging Annie Lowry's excellent round-up of the Great Recession's impact on American society. After 'the economy tipped into the deepest contraction of the post–World War II era', Lowry writes, 'the Great Recession’s scars remain'. The recession exacerbated troubling movements already underway: erosion of middle-skilled…

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